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PHILADELPHIA 

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VICINITY 




PUBLISHED BY THE LOCAL 
ORGANIZING COMMISSION 

FOR THE TWELFTH 

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 

OF NAVIGATION, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA.,1Q11 



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Building at Dock and Walnut Streets. Formerly Occupied by the Maritime 
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The Philadelphia Bourse. Exterior and Interior Views. 

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Philadelphia Yacht Club. 




Pennsylvania Museum, "Memorial Hall." Fairmount Park. 



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Bridge Across tin Wissahickon at Valley Green, Fairmount Park. 

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U. S. Government Channel Dredge "Delaware. 
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Municipal Ice-Breaker., "John Weaver. 




U. S. Battleship "Utah" in the Stone Drydock, 
League Island Navy Yard. 

Photograph by the New York Shipbuilding Co., builders. 

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Steel Baric "Astral." 

One of the Standard Oil Company's Fleet Carrying Oil to Asiatic Ports, Returning with 
Hawaiian Sugar. Steel Rigging Throughout. Length, 332 Feet. Tonnage, 2,987. 

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Length, 323 Feet. Tonnage, 3,062. 




Schooners Loading Coal for Coastwise Shipment, Port Richmond Pier. 

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Delaware and Raritan Canal. 




Raritan River and Delaware and Raritan Canal. 

Photograph by the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. 

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Tow of Railroad Ties, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. 

Photograph by Lewis M. Haupt. 




Lock on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. 

Photograph by the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. 

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Scenes on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. 

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Scenes on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. 
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Lehigh River. 
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Photograph by J. F. Hasskarl. 



Lehigh River and Canal. 




Mauch Chunk. 
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Reading Terminal Station, Philadelphia & Reading Railway. 




Broad Street Station., Pennsylvania Railroad. 
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Twelfth International Congress of 

ORGANIZATION 



LIBRPRY OF CONOKhbb 



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General Organizing Commission 

Representatives of the United States Government on the Permanent Internationa 

Commission of Navigation Congresses: 

Brigadier-General Charles W. Raymond, U. S. Army, Retired, Chairman. 

Brigadier-General William II. Bixby, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army. 

Colonel Harry F. Hodges, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. 

Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Sanford, Corps of Engineers, U. S, Army, General Secretary 
of the Congress. 

Mr. Elmec Lawrence Corthell, Civil Engineer. 
onel Johq I '.".-art. Consulting F.ngineer. 

Honorable J. Hampton Moore, Member of U. S. Congress. 



Executive Committee for the Twelfth Congress 

Brigadier-General C. W. Raymond, I". S. Army. Retired, Chairman of the American 
Section. 

Honorable J. Hampton Moore, Member of U. S. Congress. 

Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Sanford, Corps of Engineers, I*. S. Army. General Sc 
of the Congress. 

Local Organizing Commission 

I 'resident. — J. Hampton Moore, 

Vice-President. — William T. Tilden. 

Secretary-Treasurer. — George F. Sproule. 



Committees 



Executive 

J. S. W. Holton, Chairman. 

Patrons 

Hon. Dimner Beeber, Chairman. 

Prof. Emory R. Johnson, Vice-Chairman. 

Finance 
Edward T. Stotesbury, Chairman. 
J. S. W. Holton, Vice-Chairman. 

I 'hue of Meeting 
Dr. W'm. 1'. Wilson, Chairman. 
Win. 11. Hollar, dee-Chairman. 

Hotel . lecommodations 

James I'.. Bonner, Chairman. 

Samuel I- Kent, V ice-Chairman. 

Publications 

Wilfrid II. Schoff, Chairman. 

Addison B. Burk, I 'ire-Chairman. 

Transportation. 

' , :i irge E. Bartol, Chairman. 

Wm. i >. Hempstead, V ice-Chairman. 



Press 

\. B. Kelly. Chairman. 

Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Vice-Chairman 

Reception 

Frank I'. I. a!. anno. Chairman. 

Horace V I '"an. V ice-Chairman. 

Entertainment 

William T. Tilden, Chairman. 

Murdoch Kendrick, V ice-Chairman, 

Local Excursions 

J. F. Hasskarl. Chairman. 

II. F. Stotser. V ice-Chairman. 

Inspection of Public Works 

Lt.-Col. J. C. Sanford. Chairman. 

Coleman Sillers. Jr.. rice-Chairman 

Ladies' 

Theodore Kolischer, Chairman. 

James M. Dodge. I ice-Chairman. 

Lxhihition 

Alba I'.. Johnson. Chairman. 

Edgar ('. Tlv mas. Vice-Chairman. 



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